Michigan State football: What we learned, what to watch

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Nov. 17, 2013

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THREE THINGS WE LEARNED

MSU is a safe bet to play for the Big Ten title: It's not over yet, but the only way the Spartans don't win the Legends Division is if they lose at Northwestern and at home to Minnesota, and the Gophers beat Wisconsin on Saturday. All three of those potential results are varying degrees of unlikely.

The Spartans can do it in different ways: Nebraska found holes in MSU's defense like no other opponent and would have been right in the game without five turnovers. But MSU had one of its most dominant special-teams performances of the Mark Dantonio era, and its offense ...